Lieutenant Danny Roman, a top hostage negotiator for the Chicago Police Department’s east precinct, is told by his partner, Nate Roenick, that according to an informant whom he refuses to name, members of their own unit are embezzling large amounts of money from the department’s disability fund, for which Roman is a board member. Nate tells Roman that his informant hasn’t told Internal Affairs because he thinks they might be involved as well. Roman goes to meet Nate, but finds him murdered in his car with a bullet wound in his head and his car window destroyed by gunfire before he can talk to him, and a squad car arrives on the scene within seconds, considering Roman a prime suspect.The Negotiator 1998 Movie Download.
Matters become worse for Roman when IAD inspector Terence Niebaum, whom Nate’s informant suspected of involvement in the embezzlement, is assigned to investigate the murder. After the gun that killed Nate, found in the lake next to Nate’s car, is linked to a case Roman had worked on, Niebaum and other investigators search the Roman house and discover papers for an offshore bank account with a deposit equal to one of the amounts of money embezzled. Roman is forced to surrender his gun and badge, and his colleagues are skeptical of his protests of innocence.
With embezzlement and homicide charges pending, Roman storms into Niebaum’s office and demands answers about who set him up. When Niebaum refuses to answer, Roman takes Niebaum, his administrative assistant Maggie, Roman’s commander and friend Grant Frost and con man Rudy Timmons as hostages.With the building evacuated and placed under siege by his own CPD unit and the FBI, Roman issues his conditions: his badge, locating Nate’s informant and killer, a department funeral if he dies and summoning police lieutenant Chris Sabian, the city’s other top negotiator.